Now the next poster should post a list of three items, either from the Anguttara Nikāya or some other Pali source containing lists of dhammas. And the one after that should post a list of four ... and so on up to ten. When the number reaches ten the next poster should post a list of 'many' (since there aren't many lists of eleven). Then the poster after that goes back to two.

Nothing is worth clinging to, not even the Dhamma. The teachings are like a raft which take you to the other shore, but once there, you do not need to continue carrying the raft on your shoulders (similie of the raft).

---The trouble is that you think you have time------Worry is the Interest, paid in advance, on a debt you may never owe------It's not what happens to you in life that is important ~ it's what you do with it ---

This is no fun. You have to put some work into this. Try this quote: There are 8 causes and conditions for obtaining the wisdom fundamental to the holy life.... What eight? Don't forget to cite the text to see if matches the one I am referring to.

This being is bound to samsara, kamma is his means for going beyond.SN I, 38.

Ar scáth a chéile a mhaireas na daoine.People live in one another’s shelter.

The Blessed Buddha once said:Bhikkhus, these 8 things, when cultivated and refined, lead to going beyond from this near shore, right here, to the far shore beyond all... What eight?

Right View (samma-ditthi) Right Motivation (samma-sankappa) Right Speech (samma-vaca) Right Action (samma-kammanta) Right Livelihood (samma-ajiva) Right Effort (samma-vayama) Right Awareness (samma-sati) Right Concentration (samma-samadhi)

These 8 things, when cultivated and refined, lead to going beyond from this near shore, right here, to the far shore beyond. This is what the Blessed Buddha said. The Well-Gone-One, this supreme Teacher, then added this:

Few humans cross to that sublime far shore beyond all being. Mostly, people just run up & down along this barren bank! Those whose praxis is like this even and exact Dhamma, Will pass beyond the State of Death in quiet harmony! Having left all the dark and evil doing, any intelligence Seeks the luminous bright light by leaving this turmoil, and by going forth into solitary & silent homelessness. Secluded from lust, he experiences an unworldly bliss! Owing nothing, the wise & clever man thereby cleans himself of all these mental pollutions and defilements... Mentally well evolved by the 7 links to enlightenment, Delighting in non-clinging and relinquishment of all, Such luminous ones having quenched fermentation, Are fully released even right here in this world.

Fun?!? But it was never meant to be fun. It was meant to be a source of unworldly bliss (nirāmisa sukha) for Buddhists who prefer their Buddhism in a numerically ordered form.

You have to put some work into this.

Okay then, a new rule: the list of items in each new post must be clearly related to the last item in the previous poster's list. For example, if one member posts the three piṭakas, of which the third is the Abhidhamma Piṭaka, then the next member might post, say, the four paramattha dhammas or the four mental factors common to all unwholesome consciousnesses or the fourfold relinking consciousness.

"[They say:] 'He remains focused on arising & passing away with regard to the five aggregates: 'Such is form, such its origination, such its disappearance. Such is feeling... Such is perception... Such are fabrications... Such is consciousness, such its origination, such its disappearance.' Surely, knowing, he knows; seeing, he sees.' This, too, is a factor leading to endearment, to respect, to development, to consonance, to unification.

And remaining thus focussed, he will develop the nine insight knowledges (vipassanā ñāṇa).